My spiritual director has helped me find useful the Ignatian (whether the man‘s or his followers’, I do not know) language of consolation and desolation to describe the two realities of being ‘abandoned’ and of being swept into God’s arms. My question–does God draw back in reality or in tangibility? For me, Jesus going to the grave and Hell for us says that God doesn’t draw back in reality (not to mention Psalm 139). That is, we feel God’s absence, yes, but it doesn’t mean that God has left us. And yet, now I think more in terms of God being open to us and God being hidden. I’m thinking through this even as I write this, as I once would have instantly accepted it. Sometimes that means God is incredibly, tangibly present, and sometimes God is absent. His conception is that God is always for our growth. This week, in one section he began talking about God’s abandonment. This will become clearer below (as I talk about Bruteau), but I think I read Cassian in a different way than I once would have. The Chronicles of the Adventures Anderasįiled under: Art, Bible, Books, Discipleship, History, In the News, Life, Ministry, Philosophy, Politics, Prayer, Religion, Social Justice, Spirituality, Theology, Worship | Tags: abandoned by god, beatrice bruteau, community and individual, conferences, consolation, desolation, individualism, individuality, john cassian, kabat-zinn, meister eckhart, mindfulness, oneness, radical optimism, seven storey mountain, theology and metaphysics, what is meditation?, zen and the birds of appetite. All Saints Church Chapel Hill – Durham (BLOG).History and/or Destiny History and/or Destiny.
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